Bernard Reber is a philosopher and doctor in political research at Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, France, a CNRS research director and a member of the Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (Cevipof).Claire Brossaud is a sociologist based in Paris. Her research concerns ICTs and their relations with urban and environmental politics, and epistemology. This is her fourth book.

• Foreword xvDominique BOULLIERIntroduction xxiClaire BROSSAUD and Bernard REBERPART I. CAN ICT TELL HISTORY? 1Chapter 1. Elements for a Digital Historiography 3Andrea IACOVELLAChapter 2. “In Search of Real Time” or Man Facing the Desire and Duty of Speed 23Luc BONNEVILLE and Sylvie GROSJEANChapter 3. Narrativity Against Temporality: a Computational Model for Story Processing 37Eddie SOULIERPART II. HOW CAN WE LOCATE OURSELVES WITHIN ICT? 57Chapter 4. Are Virtual Maps used for Orientation? 59Alain MILONChapter 5. Geography of the Information Society 71Henry BAKIS and Philippe VIDALChapter 6. Mapping Public Web Space with the Issuecrawler 89Richard ROGERSPART III. ICT: A WORLD OF NETWORKS? 101Chapter 7. Metrology of Internet Networks 103Nicolas LARRIEU and Philippe OWEZARSKIChapter 8. Online Social Networks: A Research Object for Computer Science and Social Sciences 119Dominique CARDON and Christophe PRIEURChapter 9. Analysis of Heterogenous Networks: the ReseauLu Project 137Alberto CAMBROSIO, Pascal COTTEREAU, Stefan POPOWYCZ, Andrei MOGOUTOV and Tania VICHNEVSKAIAPART IV. COMPUTERIZED PROCESSING OF SPEECHES AND HYPERDOCUMENTS: WHAT ARE THE METHODOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES? 153Chapter 10. Hypertext, an Intellectual Technology in the Era of Complexity 155Jean CLÉMENTChapter 11. A Brief History of Software Resources for Qualitative Analysis 169Christophe LEJEUNEChapter 12. Sea Peoples, Island Folk: Hypertext and Societies without Writing 187Pierre MARANDAPART V. HOW DO ICT SUPPORT PLURALISM OF INTERPRETATIONS? 203Chapter 13. Semantic Web and Ontologies 205Philippe LAUBLETChapter 14. Interrelations between Types of Analysis and Types of Interpretation 219Karl M. VAN METERChapter 15. Pluralism and Plurality of Interpretations 231François DAOUST and Jules DUCHASTELPART VI. DISTANCE COOPERATION 245Chapter 16. A Communicational and Documentary Theory of ICT 247Manuel ZACKLADChapter 17. Knowledge Distributed by ICT: How do Communication Networks Modify Epistemic Networks? 265Bernard CONEINChapter 18. Towards New Links between HSS and Computer Science: the CoolDev Project 283Grégory BOURGUIN and Arnaud LEWANDOWSKIPART VII. TOWARDS RENEWED POLITICAL LIFE AND CITIZENSHIP 299Chapter 19. Electronic Voting and Computer Security 301Stéphan BRUNESSAUXChapter 20. Politicization of Socio-technical Spaces of Collective Cognition: the Practice of Public Wikis 317Serge PROULX and Anne GOLDENBERGChapter 21. Liaising using a Multi-agent System 331Maxime MORGEPART VIII. IS “SOCIO-INFORMATICS” POSSIBLE? 343Chapter 22. The Interdisciplinary Dialog of Social Informatics 345William TURNERChapter 23. Limitations of Computerization of Sciences of Man and Society 357Thierry FOUCARTChapter 24. The Internet in the Process of Data Collection and Dissemination 373Gaël GUEGUEN and Saïd YAMIConclusion 389Bernard REBER and Claire BROSSAUDPostscript 397Roberto BUSAList of Authors 401Index 405

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